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by ck425 6y ago
Yet if everyone made supporting their family through the generations their primary goal it would lead to incredible inequality as the advantages of those born to well off family allowed them to make their kids even better off and so on, whi
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by ck425 6y ago
Yeah that's a fair point. For me walkability is a key factor in choosing where to live. Thankfully in the UK it's pretty easy to live in walkable places.
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by ck425 6y ago
Audiobooks are great for walking. Not sure if that was what the OP was implying.
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I'm admittedly biased as I'm tall and have walked everywhere all my life. 2 miles only takes me 25 min. In that case the whole journey is really 4 miles. I was thinking in terms of a continuous or largely continuous journey (such
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by ck425 6y ago
I always interpreted that as them being selfish or idiotic. When I see people drive somewhere that's less than 2 miles away it blows my mind.
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by ck425 6y ago
Perfectly equality isn't possible but we should make it so any child can reach the height of socio-economic success. To do that we occasionally need to tear down the advantages others have such as in this case.
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by ck425 6y ago
I'd prefer a situation where everyone automatically paid for university fees via a graduate tax and no one has the option to pay outright.
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by ck425 6y ago
I both agree and disagree with this. You're right that in a lot of places in western society (though not all) you can become pretty successful through good strategy and some hard work as you've described. But that's actually
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by ck425 6y ago
My impression, and indeed my personal issue with inheritance, is financial inheritance. I have far less issues with other forms of inheritance. Sure I'm occasionally jealous of the opportunities or skills others learnt from a young age
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by ck425 6y ago
If anyone here subscribes to Stratechery I strongly recommend the interview sent out yesterday with Microsofts head of gaming. There's chat there about how gaming shifted internally in part due to how Nadella rethought gaming as it&#x2
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by ck425 6y ago
I've found Azure support reasonable. It's still not an easy product to use overall compared to AWS but the support engineers have been very proactive and keen to jump on calls to fix stuff.
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by ck425 6y ago
The things is I never read about any major decisions Sundar Pichai has made. There's tons online about Tim Cook, Satya, Netflix's various SLs, Daniel Ek, Elon Musk (admittedly more about his tweets than business strat these days)
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by ck425 6y ago
I forgot that the F# tuning is used in Come Alive by the Foo Fighters. Cracking song and where I originally learned it.
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by ck425 6y ago
There's a big difference between quantity in each completed piece of work and quantity of pieces of completed work. I think his theory favours the latter by far. Instead of increase quantity by writing bigger articles, write lots of ar
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by ck425 6y ago
I've used EBEEBE before and it's a gorgeous tuning, using for the song 'Gold' from the film/musical Once. Also the variation EADGBF# is super interesting with open cords, though you do have to be very careful with t
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by ck425 6y ago
I actually have a large social life outside of work, far more than the majority of folk I work with. Unfortunately that's all gone atm and unlikely to return until covid is completely over. As to space, co working isn't the same a
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by ck425 6y ago
> It's not like going to an actual office where your co-workers are Exactly. That's what I miss and there'll be folk at Dropbox who miss it too. For folk who live in cities and/or don't mind commutes they might g
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by ck425 6y ago
I think the effect will reverse after a while. Sure a lot of folk want remote jobs but there'll also be plenty of folk at Dropbox and following companies who want an office and will start looking elsewhere following covid.
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by ck425 6y ago
I really hope hot desking doesn't become a thing. I love having my own desk that's setup as I like it.
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by ck425 6y ago
Great for you. But not everyone has the same circumstances. I was a short walk from my office, a beautiful route I run everyday anyway. But I live in an old flat that expensive to heat. Wfh saves me nothing at all and is going to be extorti
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by ck425 6y ago
Except fuel prices going up was within the reasonable range of potential futures. Everyone suddenly forced to work from home wasn't.
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by ck425 6y ago
That's a solid metaphor but it ignores that there's a considerable downside to self isolating. No one has major mental health issues because they can't drink drive. If someone proved medically that they had to drink drive or
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by ck425 6y ago
Anecdotal but this is exactly what has happened to me. I live alone and have been WFH since March. It's gotten harder and harder and since September I've had outright moderate depression. It's directly linked to WFH and livin
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by ck425 6y ago
That's a hard opinion to push during a pandemic. I might be ok WFH during normal times (I strongly suspect I'd dislike it still) but atm it's nigh impossible to get enough human interaction outside the office.
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by ck425 6y ago
There has to be a balance though. I'm desperately missing the office and have experience moderate depression for the first time in my life working from home. Atm everything I read is 'WFH is the new normal' or 'we'l
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by ck425 6y ago
I personally really enjoyed the last two seasons of The Office US. Sure the transition was a bit dodgy but once it got it's stride it was enjoyable. Hell I'd even rate the final season as among the best overall.
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by ck425 6y ago
> I'm just boggled at how many people appear to find it unimaginable and unrelatable that a technologist likes technology enough to mess with it for fun, even after work. It's not that I can't understand it. I don't h
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by ck425 6y ago
Spend less, save more, invest. It's boring but it works, regardless of how much you're earning.
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by ck425 6y ago
The problem, as this thread shows, is that often software engineers start putting the expectation onto each other, which causes issues.
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by ck425 6y ago
This, 100% this. I have a ton of other interests outside of software. I already get 40 hours a week working on software so why would I ignore all other interests and spend that time building software too? I'd much rather spend that tim

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